Fear Quotes
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An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
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The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies.
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Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
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I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
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How sweet to be an idiotAt my back With no fear of attack As much retaliation as a toy.
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.
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Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
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If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
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The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?
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God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
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Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
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In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.
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It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.
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Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.
